Patents by Inventor Christian Brenneke

Christian Brenneke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • VEHICLE, IN PARTICULAR A HYBRID VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION UNIT OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130138287
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle (1), which has: an internal combustion engine (6), an output shaft (3), a transmission unit (13; 8, 12) provided between the internal combustion engine (6) and the output shaft (3) for setting different gear ratios and/or decoupling the internal combustion engine (6) from the output shaft (3), and a compressed-air system (5) having a compressor (16) arranged on an engine shaft (7) of the internal combustion engine (6) and a compressed-air control unit (18). According to the invention, the compressed-air control unit (18) outputs a requirement signal (S4) for a transmission setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Brenneke, Stefan Brinkmann, Konrad Feyerabend